8 Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the Lord your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.”
I'm intrigued by her response to what she found when visiting Solomon. She simultaneously seems to be giving God the credit for all that splendor that she sees, and acknowledging that the God responsible, isn't her god. That's crazy to me. How can you understand God's power, and not follow him? In this paragraph she keeps referring to "your" God. Maybe that is just being polite, and she really does see God as the true God? I'm not sure.
the second thing that caught my eye was the number of talents of gold that she brought to Solomon. 666, of course. I think we may have read the same story in Kings. It seems familiar.
so i just see my post from last week didn't show. Since I'm behind i'm not going to reconstruct. you are correct the same story was in Kings--good memory. 666 caught my eye, research didn't find anything peculiar about that number though in this instance.
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